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Harvard University announced today that the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, Professor in Religion and Society and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Divinity, will resign as head of Harvard Divinity School (HDS) at the end of 2001 to become president...

The Reverend James Lawson admits that it sometimes troubles him when people view him as a living artifact of the civil rights movement, especially because he has been arrested for civil disobedience more times in the last 10 years than he ever was during...

In a spirit of overcoming traditions of institutional suspicion and stereotype, Harvard Divinity School administrators, professors, and students met recently at HDS with an eight-person delegation of administrators, professors, and students from Baylor...

It's probably safe to say there aren't many 25-year-olds who have been responsible for organizing a Harvard-wide conference on a hot topic (Islam in America), creating their own publishing company, and discovering an important scholarly treasure, the 1873...

After waiting his turn to take part in a question-and-answer session during the "Islam in America" conference at Harvard last weekend, a young man approached the microphone, introduced himself, and said, "I'm a Muslim, and therefore, by definition, I'm a...

Visiting Professor Ahmed Toufiq presented the lecture "The Friday Sermon: Searching for a Modern Speech in Orthodox Islam" on Tuesday, March 13, 2001, in the Sperry Room of Andover Hall. His lecture was the first public event in the expanding program in...

As debate flurries around President George W. Bush's establishment of a federal office of faith-based and community action, Who Will Provide? The Changing Role of Religion in American Social Welfare , a recently published collection of essays that derives...

For the first time, the World Economic Forum has invited religious and spiritual leaders, as well as experts on religion, to be part of its annual meeting, which is being held this year January 28-31 in Davos, Switzerland. Among the nearly 25 religion...

James L. Kugel, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and member of the Faculty of Divinity, won the 2001 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book, The Bible as It Was. The Award, a $200,000...

Even a person who has already dedicated close to five decades of his life to service for the socially disadvantaged can experience a profound moment of vocational clarity, an epiphany in regard to destiny. For the late Rev. Robert W. Wilden, BD '61, that...

Three highly regarded faculty with a combined 92 years of service to Harvard Divinity School retired on June 30, 2009. Harvey G. Cox, Jr., has been teaching at HDS and in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1965. He arrived as Associate Professor of...

The following faculty address was delivered by Susan Abraham, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies, in the Memorial Church during the June 3 Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving for the Class of 2009. Dean Graham, Reverend Gomes, Class of 2009...